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Wrong. It’s time for Gov. David Ige to reveal his latest Cabinet appointment — right at that moment when no one is looking.

Since he started picking people in November to serve in his new administration, 11 were named on Fridays and another seven were disclosed on New Year’s Eve.

The ceremonial room in the governor’s office sits empty Thursday. Gov. David Ige has been announcing his Cabinet appointments often on Fridays and hasn’t held weekly press availabilities.

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The timing raises the question of whether the governor’s office is trying to avoid public scrutiny by announcing these major decisions when people are paying less attention to the news.

His Friday appointees include the head of the Public Utilities Commission (Randy Iwase), Attorney General (Doug Chin), Department of Land and Natural Resources (Carleton Ching), Board of Agriculture (Scott Enright), Department of Hawaiian Home Lands (Jobie Masagatani), Department of Health (Dr. Ginny Pressler) and Department of Commerce and Consumer Affairs (Catherine Awakuni Colón), to name a few.

The Cabinet choices are huge. This is who will be running departments with budgets in the hundreds of millions of dollars, charged with providing myriad public services, enforcing state laws and working to fulfill an ever-growing list of responsibilities.

All of Ige’s appointments so far have been announced via news releases. No fanfare. No accompanying press conferences like his predecessor, Gov. Neil Abercrombie, was fond of holding. Just the